MechAssault Misses January

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New mechs and maps won't be available this month.

By Aaron Boulding

As we write this there are scant few hours left in the month of January and this, along with Microsoft's official word, confirms that new downloadable content for MechAssault won't show up until February, at the earliest.

In December, Microsoft announced that January would see the first wave of downloadable content for MechAssault. Day 1 is cooking up four new mechs, four new gameplay maps and at least two new multiplayer game modes to be delivered through Xbox Live throughout the early part of the year. The original plan was to have something new every week or every other week throughout the first few months of 2003. Now that January has come and gone with no new content, the depths of the downloadable content plan, let alone the schedule are still unclear.

Here's the original lineup of downloadable content as of December 5, 2002:

Capture the Flag game type - Snag the enemies flag and return it to your base!

Two maps only for Capture the Flag - These will either be released with CTF or shortly afterwards

Loki mech - Heavy guns and armor

Hellbringer mech - Variant of the Loki

Objective Raid game type - Details to be released

Two maps only for use with Objective Raid - These will either be released with the new game type or shortly afterwards

Two additional maps - Details on these to be released

Additional testing of the new mechs and other new content for MechAssault is cited as the reason for the delay. For now we have new screens on the mechs and maps that should be available first once downloadable content becomes a reality. IGN plans to have more on downloadable content for MechAssault in the coming weeks.